"Do I Need a Jacket?"

All credit for the idea goes to: doineedajacket.com/However, the skin does not actually use that website. The skin parses current weather info from Yahoo! Weather and does the math in the skin. The only downside to this - Y! Weather does not provide wind gusts data, which is important for a skin like this.

On mouseover, the skin shows three buttons for the Settings.txt file, Refresh, and the Readme file. Please refer to the readme ("info.rtf") for explanations of all the variables in Settings.txt and instructions on how to find your Yahoo! weather location code.

UPDATE to the READMELooks like Yahoo! made some changes to their weather page, and removed the RSS button. The feed still works, but you can't go from the forecast page to the RSS feed to wind your Yahoo/Weather.com WOEID. In the US, instead of using your WOEID, you should just be able to use your ZIP code. For those outside the US, try this: - Go to Weather.com (the Weather Channel) and search for your location, preferably using a city and country.- On the page for your location, look at the URL bar. It should be something like this: htt.p://www.weather.com/weather/right-now/SFXX0023:1- The sequence of eight letters and numbers near the end of the URL, between the last "/" and the ":", are that location's WOEID. For instance, Johannesburg, South Africa (the link above) is SFXX0023. Use the WOEID to set your location for the skin as indicated in the README file.

i have read thru all the pages here and am having an issue ... i changed the original color (can't remember what it was) to a dark grey ... i decided after a while that i didn't like it so changed it to white text, which looks ok as i usually use darker wallpapers ... however, since then i have been unable to change the color at all ... despite deleting the whole DINAJ folder from the rainmeter skins folder in my docs (can anyone tell me the corect way to delete a skin from rainmeter?) and re installing DINAJ

To set each string to a different color, you can just plug whatever values you want into the "[Y/N]" and "[Elaboration]" meters in jacket.ini. Right now both have "FontColor=#color#" (to use the value from the settings file), but you can set "FontColor=(whatever color you'd like)" on either one.

This has been a problem for a while, but unfortunately I have no idea why it happens. I'm currently working on a new version written from scratch - it'll be a little different but hopefully won't have this issue... (if it does, I'm really at a loss)

Looks like a bug for sure. I'm currently working on a new version written from scratch; it might not have the wind speed settings (it just looks at the current wind chill value) but it should handle the units a bit better.

Hover over the skin and click the little gear icon that appears in the top left corner to open the settings file. You can change the "color" value to anything in Hex or RGBA format as described here: docs.rainmeter.net/manual/skin…

You can click a "gear" button on a widget. This action will open settings.txt with current settings for this widget. There you can find a line called "color" with 4 numbers. The first three are (at least i assume so) traditional RGB numbers ( range: 0-255 ) and the last one (also an assumption) is the brightness or smth like that (range: 0-255)

Hover over the skin, click in the little gear icon that appears in the top left. That opens the settings file in your default text editor (probably notepad). Change the line "unit=f" to "unit=c" to retrieve metric data from Yahoo instead of Fahrenheit. However, all the different thresholds (hotTemp, coldeTemp, windLow, etc) are set for Fahrenheit, so you'll want to adjust those to numbers that make more sense for the Celsius range.When your done changing settings, just save the file and refresh the skin.

(I'd like to work on a new version that isn't so annoying to edit, but I might not have time.)

The instructions didn't work out for me... It always said that it was darn could outside but not windy. What I did was this: First, open the DINAJ folder (you can right click on the skin, then click DINAJ) and open the jacket file. Then look for the [mWeatherData] section and in the line "URL" change the "forecastrss?p" to "forecastrss?w". Now, the WOEID you should use is on weather.yahoo.com When you enter a location, the URL should say something like "htt.ps://weather.yahoo.com/country/region/city-123456/". For the example, the WOEID is "123456". That is the number you should put on the settings file. Also, check in the settings file that the "unit" is NOT set in capital letters because it's case sensitive (it should be either "c" or "f"). Thats all! Btw, great skin! (:

I had DINAJ set to use Celcius, but it was still using the hard-coded Fahrenheit numbers to determine how chilly/cold it is. No biggie; I converted the temperatures and saved the changes. However, I'm noticing that DINAJ isn't updating itself (or is doing so infrequently). Is there a way to change how often it updates?

My "Tonight" temp isn't working. Like in the afternoon when it should switch to tonight's temp, it still says "Today, but the temperature and everything else just disappears. I didn't change the coding or anything, but I went in and looked and under "Gather Weather Info From RSS" "Tonight" is missing. Does that have anything to do with it?

Its so faint! I have it set on a black background and I struggle to even read it. I messed around with the colors a bit to try and change this but it doesn't seem to fix the issue. Do you have a suggestion?

You're right, I wasn't planing on it... but that would be nice indeed. I'm not sure how feasible it is and school is in session, but I'll put it on the todo list. Lua scripting is pretty handy so maybe I can figure something out.

It is PLXX5797 right? My DINAJ says that "you need a jacket, it's darn cold but not windy" , but I have like 31 C here and I am melting. I think I did something wrong with configuration but its not much to do with it

You'll need to adjust the "hotTemp", "coldTemp", and "freezeTemp" thresholds in the Settings.txt file. Unfortunately, the skin isn't smart enough to check whether you are using Celsius or Fahrenheit and use different temperature settings accordingly, so you'll need to change them to something that makes more sense for the Metric system.

It's possible, but it would probably be a little deeper than "reconfiguration" - one would need to rewrite the WebParser measures to work with the new data source. If the new WebParse measures return data in the same form as the current ones, then the rest of the skin should work fine.

Sounds like your plugin situation is messed up. I would try reinstalling Rainmeter - you can run the installer from Rainmeter.net overtop your current installation, and it will preserve all of your skins.